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Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (24), from Denmark, and Maren Ueland (28) from Norway, were killed in their tent in December near the Moroccan village of Imlil, a popular hiking destination.
Three sentenced to death for backpacker murders in Morocco

Three Moroccan men were sentenced to death on Thursday for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (24)(...)

In a court hearing Abdessamad Ejjoud and Youness Ouziyad admitted to attacking and decapitating the two women, who were staying overnight in a tent in the Atlas mountains. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
Three men admit to the murder of two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco

Three Moroccan men admitted on Thursday to the killing of two Scandinavian backpackers in a grisly murder last December, saying they had committed the(...)

Palestinian protesters gather beside a heap of barbed wire and burning tyres during clashes with Israeli forces near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza strip city of Khan Younis. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Violence continues after Trump decision on Jerusalem

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem’s main bus station on Sunday, police said, and violence flared near the US embassy in Bei(...)

A man lights a candle at an impromptu memorial at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Reuters/Susana Vera
Why Spain is a fertile ground for terrorists

Last week’s terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were predictable – Spanish security and intelligence officials had recently warned of the like(...)

A woman wearing a niqab (full face cover) walks next mannequins with Islam appropriate clothes and headscarves (hijab) at a market at al-Ghoria neighbourhood of old Cairo, Egypt. According to local media, Morocco has banned the production and sale of full-face veils (burqas). Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA
Morocco bans burqas due to ‘security concerns’, say reports
  • Africa
  • January 12, 2017, 12:27

Morocco has banned the burqa, the full-body veil worn by some conservative Muslim women, according to local media reports. Although the government (...)

A protester takes part in a rally after the death of Mouhcine Fikri, a fishmonger who was crushed to death inside a rubbish truck as he tried to retrieve fish confiscated by police, in the northern city of Hoceima. Photograph: Reuters
Moroccan police investigated over man crushed in rubbish truck
  • Africa
  • November 1, 2016, 15:02

Eleven people, including two police officers, are to face a judicial investigation over the gruesome case of a man crushed to death in a rubbish comp(...)

Rory McNamara, of Headfort Golf Club, plays this week in the Trophée Hassan II on the European Tour. Photo: Getty Images
Headfort’s Rory McNamara ready for big break in Morocco
  • Golf
  • May 4, 2016, 19:49

Headfort’s Rory McNamara will tee it up at the Trophée Hassan II in Morocco this week after booking himself a place by winning the Tony Jacklin Class(...)

Dempsey Nibbs (69) has been jailed for life after beheading wife Judith Nibbs (60). Photograph: PA Wire
Husband found guilty of decapitating wife in act of ‘grotesque savagery’
  • UK
  • April 18, 2016, 12:38

A husband who decapitated his wife of 30 years and flushed her severed head down the toilet in an act of “grotesque savagery” has been jailed for life(...)